Ariane Labed’s feature-directing debut Sisters is among the 33 projects to receive funding from Eurimages second wave of 2023 co-production funding.
The French-Greek actor’s feature directing debut received €350,000 from the €9.7m pot. The Ireland, UK, Germany and Greece co-production is produced by Ireland’s Element Pictures. An English-language adaptation of Daisy Johnson’s gothic novel of the same name it follows two sisters who move to the countryside with their maniac depressive mother. Labed previously directed short film Olla which won three awards at Clermont-Ferrand in 2020.
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Four of the projects received €500,000 - the largest amount awarded in this round - including Cherien Dabis’ All That’s Left Of You, a Germany-Cyprus co-production, and Anders Thomas Jensen’s Back To Reality, a Denmark-Sweden co-production.
Other notable projects include Ameer Fakher Eldin’s Yunan, a co-production between Germany, Canada, Italy and France which received €400,000 and follows a writer who travels to the North Sea to debate suicide.
Magnus von Horn’s The Little Seamstress was awarded €480,000. The Denmark-Poland-Sweden co-production is loosely based on one of Denmark’s most notorious serial killers.
56.4% of the projects are directed, or co-directed, by women which is a significant increase from its first round of funding, announced in April, when just 36.5% of projects were female-directed.
Eurimages Co-production Support 2023 funding
After (Sp-Fr), dir. Oliver Laxe - €420 000
All That’s Left of You (Ger-Cyp), dir. Cherien Dabis - €500 000
Back To Reality (Den-Swe), dir. Anders Thomas Jensen - €500 000
Block 5 (Slo-Czech-Serb), dir. Klemen Dvornik - €150 000
Born Happy (Lat-Pol), Edmunds Jansons - €150 000
Brothers (Ger-Turk), dir. Türker Süer - €200 000
Cinderella’s Stepsister (Nor-Den-Rom), Emilie Blichfeldt - €500 000
Father (Rom-Ger-Neth), dirs. Lina Vdovîi, Radu Ciorniciuc - €150 000
First Comes Life, Then The Movies (It-Fr), dir. Francesca Comencini - €350 000
Goat Girl (Sp-Rom), dir. Ana Asensio - €112 000
Hanami (Switz-Port), dir. Denise Fernandes - €250 000
Kevlar Soul (Swe-Nor-Fin), dir. Maria Eriksson-Hecht - €350 000
L’Enfant Bélier (Bel-Can), dir. Marta Bergman - €240 000
Little Trouble Girls (Slo-It-Cro), dir. Urška Djukic - €250 000
Man vs Flock (North Macedonia-Serb-Turk-Cro), dir. Tamara Kotevska - €265 000
Mist (Bel-Neth), dir. Kat Steppe - €240 000
Mum (Ser-Bulgaria-Cro), dir. Nikola Ležaić - €116 000
No Mercy - The Unsparing Gaze (Ger-Austria), dir. Isa Willinger - €274 000
North South Man Woman (Nor-Latvia), dirs. Sun Kim, Morten Traavik - €140 000
Outfoxed (Ire-Bel), dirs. Maurice Joyce, Paul Bolger - €450 000
Paradise (Can-Fr), dir. Jérémy Comte - €300 000
Sea Of Glass (Gre-Bul-Cyp), dir. Alexis Alexiou - €176 000
Sisters (Ire-UK-Ger-Greece), dir. Ariane Labed - €350 000
Skiff (Bel-Neth), dir. Cecilia Verheyden - €360 000
Sorella Di Clausura (Rom-Serb), dir. Ivana Mladenovic - €354 000
The Girl From Köln (Ger-Pol), dir. Ido Fluk - €470 000
The Little Seamstress (Den-Pol-Swe), dir. Magnus von Horn - €480 000
Transit Times (Ger-Rom), dir. Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu - €240 000
Vermiglio, Or the Mountain Bride (It-Fr-Bel), dir. Maura Delpero - €500 000
Wait Till You Hear Mine (Tur-Rom), dir. Pelin Esmer - €160 000
When The Light Breaks (Ice-Neth), dir. Rúnar Rúnarsson - €150 000
Yugo Florida (Ser-Bul-Cro-Montenegro), dir. Vladimir Tagic - €105 000
Yunan (Ger-Can-It-Fr), dir. Ameer Fakher Eldin - €400 000
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